Example sentences of "when i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 2 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 3 | That is when I got a real bee in my bonnet about British restaurants . |
| 4 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
| 5 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 6 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 7 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 8 | There was something else , you know when I got the when I got my food processor |
| 9 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 11 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 12 | It started on a Friday night in November when I felt a bit odd , so I took a paracetamol and went to bed with a hot-water bottle . |
| 13 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
| 14 | I was about half-way across when I felt the rear begin to swing sideways under the weight of the torrent . |
| 15 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 16 | On another day when I asked the question , she began slowly and with difficulty to lift the skirts of her dress , revealing bare knees . |
| 17 | Did you see their faces when I asked the question ? ’ |
| 18 | I was checking the rooms of The Pightle for leaks and other necessary repairs when I discovered an entirely new wing . |
| 19 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
| 20 | Some days when I attend a day meeting I can start at 5am and finish at 9pm including travel . |
| 21 | As I say it 's when I take the bandage off at night . |
| 22 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 23 | At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ? |
| 24 | . Well in that today he says er when I seen the syringe coming out I just , I 'll not be in the room if he 's getting injected . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's when I thought a little research might be in order . |
| 26 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
| 27 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 28 | It was just after eleven when I made the conifer where I 'd split from Werewolf . |
| 29 | Back in a couple hours when I get the stuff together . ’ |
| 30 | The bastard knew when I took a drink . |